Definitions for umbrage

umbrage um·brage

Spelling: [uhm-brij]
IPA: /ˈʌm brɪdʒ/

Umbrage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in umbrage (abegmru).

Definitions for umbrage

noun

  1. offense; annoyance; displeasure:
  2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like.
  3. leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.
  4. shade or shadows, as cast by trees.
  5. a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

Origin of umbrage

1400-50; late Middle English Old French; see umbra, -age

Examples for umbrage

Talleyrand and Fouche were not the only ones who gave him umbrage.

A thing looked at with umbrage by the English, by the Dutch.

Whitaker found his irrelevant trick of umbrage trying in the extreme.

Consequently his sense of umbrage on the present occasion was unbounded.

The pair disappeared; till, in a few minutes, Tupcombe could discern a horse emerging from a remoter part of the umbrage.

I shall take no umbrage at the failure of my communications to call forth replies.

Fulkerson added, in concession to the umbrage he detected in March.

Find out what will give most umbrage to your Court, and I will tell you why in my next.

umbrage went out to see if he could gather any information about a prize-fight.

He never made himself a Creature, but always removed and humbled those that ever gave him any umbrage.

Word Value for umbrage
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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